WHAT do you bother logging?

[Air On]

What depth, time, locations are not worth logging?

I've heard it said that you don't log POOL time.
Then I see in a dive mag that there is a POOL in Texas? that is basicaly a spring fed pool with a man made pool enclosure. Granted its still big.

Then I hear from some divers that they didn't log many redundant working dives (some in the thousands) doing things like welding, shallow salvage, vacume sluce minning, etc.

What is you had a pool that was 10 -15 foot deep.
What about that one dive center with a heated indoor pool thats over 33 meters deep?
What about a 5-10 foot deep pond or a river?

One person mentioned they record anything over 5 feet that activates their dive computer?

I can't seem to find any real standard as to what counts as experience twards dive time?

If I spent time practicing air use and training myself differnt finning methods in a 10 -foot pool would that count?

I could do it in a local lake or cannal thats the same depth or shallower but then it would count differntly?

Whats the community/industry standard?

 

[underwasser bolt]

lots of opinions i am sure; i say NO pool counts. open water meens that, OPEN. In open water I log anything over 15 feet deep as a dive IF the surface interval has been more than 10 minutes. On some training dives with a specific objective in mind, my bottom time may not be that long, but I am documenting the activity, not the bottom time. May do a recovery dive to 50 feet, find the object instantly, secure a line to it, and surface. My job is done, dive is over, and i log it.

 

[El Orans]

A 115ft deep pool counts...

 

[archman]

Dang, the pool dive I logged bottomed out at a piddly 60 feet.

 

[underwasser bolt]

i knew i should have not stated "NO" with so much enthusiasm. never seen a pool like that; never went looking for one. I guess maybe an aquarium can count? My general principle, besides putting my foot in my mouth, is to log an activity or objective.

 

[balance]

i knew i should have not stated "NO" with so much enthusiasm. never seen a pool like that; never went looking for one. I guess maybe an aquarium can count? My general principle, besides putting my foot in my mouth, is to log an activity or objective.

If I ever do the aquarium dives offered locally I'll definitely log them despite the depths being pretty trivial. It's just one of those things...

 

[spacemanspiff1974]

i got out of the habit of logging dives blindly. I will however, record interesting features of a dive / depth/ equipment configurations/ environmental conditions etc. if I feel the need for me. I don't usually take my log book with me on vacation, but sometimes write down on pieces of scrap paper and copy it in to my notes later.

The old "went down to 60 feet in cozumel and saw the pretty fish" log got boring a long time ago.

 

[mudhole]

i got out of the habit of logging dives blindly. I will however, record interesting features of a dive / depth/ equipment configurations/ environmental conditions etc. if I feel the need for me. I don't usually take my log book with me on vacation, but sometimes write down on pieces of scrap paper and copy it in to my notes later.

The old "went down to 60 feet in cozumel and saw the pretty fish" log got boring a long time ago.

As a beginning diver, you should log every open water dive, If you travel, it shows the boat captains what level of experience you have. Some of the instruction agencies want proof of dives. Everything you encounter should be recorded until it becomes repetitive. In my early dives I was hunting rough fish for tournaments. . . I logged temperatures, cloudy, clear, depths, all the conditions that affected fish behavior. Later I dove with a lot of dive students, I didn't log the dives but the dive shop did. When I was shooting underwater pix, I logged water conditions, flash, exposure, information that I needed to repeat what I had done. Today, I rarely log dives, because my memory is fine, about where I found dinner, or where we took a new diver. The log book can please the paper shufflers for a while, then please you when you're doing something new to you.

The profile you filled out for the board is a useful tool. You will get answers to your questions based on your experience level. When you get past a few hundred dives you'll be answering more questions than you ask here, but that's the value of giving your profile information.

 

[shotthebreeze]

Well, considering that I'm an "open water" diver...I log anything that's in open water...no pools...

 

[Digger54]

If it's a dive I need to strap on the dive computer for, or consult tables -- it gets logged.

That rules out trips to the pool regardless of how long the session is or that 3 minute "dive" in the quarry for a buoyancy check at 15 ft.